GP Practice Pharmacist

MMS® GP Practice Pharmacists

Providing Pharmacists for your Practice

MMS® can provide support to NHS Practices to help meet their goals and targets and to improve patient outcomes. We can provide tailored solutions for NHS Practices and Primary Care Networks (PCNs) to minimise your time commitment and maximise your outcomes within restrained NHS budgets. 

We can provide pharmacists on a long term or sessional basis depending on the requirements of the practice. We ensure that clinical grade pharmacists are embedded into the processes of your practice.

MMS® have a range of GP Practice Pharmacist services designed to optimise patient care and improve outcomes. We work with individual GP Practices, GP Federations, Primary Care Networks (PCNs) and CCGs to provide a bespoke service to meet your specific requirements.

The addition of a Clinical Pharmacist has been proven to alleviate the workload of a GP by removing time consuming responsibilities from their list of duties. Furthermore our MMS® pharmacists can support patients to get the most from their medicines, reduce medicines wastage and reduce unplanned hospital admissions.

MMS® has innovatively found ways to work with the NHS to provide risk-share and flexible services that deliver a distinct advantage to compliment medicines management teams. This has proven beneficial in conjunction with our ability to offer sponsored programmes in a range of therapy areas, clinical reviews and software solutions, so there will be no cost implications to your surgery or CCG. 

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Improve Patient Outcomes

Optimise Patient Care

Improve QOF Outcomes

Practice Pharmacists can be directly commissioned from MMS® to work in your Practice or Federation.
The option of outsourcing Pharmacist support is comparable in costs to direct employment but may offer additional advantages.
MMS® also offer flexible options to ease the pressures of recruitment, training, and the potentially significant overheads relating to employment contracts & indemnity.

MMS® pharmacists can provide a varied and flexible service to suit the demands of different practice settings, key features include;

  • Medication Reviews and Clinics

  • Prescription management and acute ordering

  • Medicines Reconciliation & Hospital Discharge reviews

  • Telephone queries and consultation

  • Managing cost effective prescribing and QIPP

  • Improve quality of care to improve patient outcomes & admission avoidance

  • Risk stratification –virtual ward

Benefits that have been consistently demonstrated include;

  • Improved access & reduced demand on GP consultations

  • Resolving day-to-day medicine queries

  • Integration with MDT to consult and treat patients directly

  • Free up GP time and potentially reduce locum GP fees

Pilots have demonstrated that a Practice Pharmacist can save 1 hour per GP per day, 6 hours of GP time per surgery per day

Case Example: MMS® Practice Pharmacist – outcomes at 6 months

1505

Medicines Reviews

485

Hospital Discharge Reconciliations

121

Locum GP Sessions Saved

 

Example day for an MMS® GP Practice Pharmacist

Example day for a MMS® GP Practice Pharmacist (5)

 

 

 

93% 

voted our training as Excellent

Pharmacist Training

 

 

 

87% 

found our training Highly Relevant to their role and for further career progression

Gain the skills to become a Practice Pharmacist

Advance your career as a Pharmacist

Learn key GP software with hands on training

CPD accredited learning programme

MMS® provide a training programme for pharmacists looking to move into a GP Practice setting. We will provide valuable information on key skills that are used in GP Practice and will equip you with the knowledge needed to succeed in practice. This programme will be run by experienced practice pharmacists and will offer you a hands on approach to learning how to work as a practice pharmacist.

The MMS® GP Pharmacist Training Programme will:

 – Familiarise new pharmacists with the Primary Care Landscape
 – Introduce key aspects of a practice based role
 – Highlight the significance of NHS work streams eg. QOF and QIPP
 – Expert speakers sharing a range of case studies
 – Unique insight and demonstration of GP Practice software
 – 6 Hours of certified Continued Professional Development (CPD)
 – Options to shadow and network with experienced clinical pharmacists

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MMS® can provide bespoke models of support to suit your requirements. Please contact MMS® to speak to one of our senior team for further information

MMS® Ltd
First Floor, Unit 18
Warren Business Park 
Enderby, Leicester, LE19 4SA
T: 0116 286 4441    F: 0116 286 6227    E: enquiries@medicines-management.co.uk